MEDIUM vs MAGICIAN EXPERIMENT
Saturday 25 April, 2009
Dragon Hall, Covent Garden
Tickets available from Fright Nights
At the Covent Garden Dragon Hall in the heart of London, Dr. Ciaran O’Keeffe, parapsychologist from TV’s Most Haunted, hosts a unique experiment on the nature of belief. Inspired by the experiments undertaken by the Society for Psychical Research and Harry Houdini in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, we ask “Do the Spirits Talk to Us?”

The challenge involves a clairvoyant medium and a mind-reading magician. Both will take the stage individually in the auspicious surroundings of the Dragon Hall theatre in Covent Garden. Who has the ability and the talent to impress the audience with their gift and their accuracy? This promises to be an entertaining afternoon, which hopes to also address more serious issues. Can the clairvoyant medium demonstrate the authenticity of their gift, or will the mind-reading magician show that mediumship is really little more than a well intentioned “trick of the mind”?

We are very pleased to announce that international spiritualist medium, Donna Stewart has taken the challenge as the representative of mediums everywhere! Donna is a natural medium with an unassuming style that has gained her a reputation for delivering highly accurate and detailed messages from the spirit world.

Donna will be challenged by world-class mind reading magician and member of the Magic Circle, Peter Campbell-Wells who has successfully appeared at the Edinburgh Festival.  He has many years experience of “cold reading” a trick in which it appears he is reading your mind!  Even without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by carefully analyzing the person's body language, clothing, hairstyle etc.

Conducted in an open and even-handed manner, Dr. Ciaran O’Keeffe promises to be an impartial judge and the perfect host for such a unique event.

The Dragon Hall is located 17 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LT, very close to both Holburn and Covent Garden tube stations.